Exercise One

I downloaded the Wombo.Art app on all my Apple devices to find the platform I prefer the most. I opted for the mac version as I found it much easier to see the artwork on a bigger screen. I enjoyed exploring the discover section on the homepage as it gave me insight into many art styles I wouldn’t have necessarily searched for.

After exploring the community feed, I used an image to test some filters. I upgraded to premium by starting a free trial to feel the app’s full benefits.

Upon choosing the create button, there was an option to enter a prompt with a maximum of 200 characters. Beneath that, they had prompt suggestions that were handy and provided inspiration when entering my own prompt.

Following that, there was the option to choose a style of art; most of these were premium only, so I started a free trial, which allowed me to use and test them. From there, I could either select an image provided or upload one of my own, which further personalises the end product; this will also reduce the risk of plagiarism and copyright.

I attempted three different versions using different prompts, images and art styles. Figure 1 to 3 display the results.

Exercise Two

Task 2 was a group task I could not do as I wasn’t in the lesson at the time. However, I still attempted it individually. The overall theme of this task was an oxymoron of pollution and purity. Regarding the design, the filter over an image that represents pollution should allow the image to look clean and pure and vice versa.

I took two images from google that fit the descriptions of purity and pollution; these are the images I selected before generating the NFTs. For the prompts, I chose descriptive words centred around the themes of purity and pollution, then set the style I thought was appropriate for the themes.

I added the NFTs to a blog post using Elementor. I inserted the purity image into a section and altered the background to contain the pollution image, allowing the image to change when hovering over it. Due to the border of the background image being exposed, I altered the padding in advanced settings to resolve the issue. I adjusted the opacity settings accordingly to create the desired effect.

Figure 4 is a video demonstrating the results. When hovered, the purity image shows an NFT created using the same image but with a different art style that portrays the image’s purity as opposed to the natural state, which portrays pollution. The Pollution hover state works in the same way.